These sci-fi futures didn't collapse -- they worked.

Описание: 🤖🚀 Every dystopia on this list was built as a utopia -- by people who believed completely that they were making things better. Objectivism, theocracy, totalitarianism, survivalism: we're ranking eight of sci-fi's bleakest futures and tracing each one back to the ideology that created it. These aren't warnings about what could go wrong. They're warnings about what happens when the plan works!

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➡️ What's in this video:
00:00 Bleakest sci-fi futures.
01:54 #8 - Comfort is the cage.
05:07 #7 - No gods or kings. Only man.
08:22 #6 - Strength through unity.
11:38 #5 - Blessed be the fruit.
15:41 #4 - Please turn out the light.
18:56 #3 - It can't be for nothing.
22:24 #2 - He loved Big Brother.
26:27 #1 - Hate.
31:26 Honourable mentions.
32:38 What have we learned?
34:14 Like and subscribe!

Sources (and to spoil the ranking):
BioShock (2007), 2K Games
Children of Men (2006), Universal Pictures
The Handmaid’s Tale (1985), McClelland and Stewart
The Handmaid’s Tale (2017), Hulu
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1967), Galaxy Publishing Corp.
I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream (1995), Cyberdreams
The Last of Us (2013), Sony Computer Entertainment
The Last of Us (2023), HBO
The Matrix (1999), Warner Bros.
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), Secker & Warburg
Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984), Virgin Films
V for Vendetta (1982), Quality Communications
V for Vendetta (2005), Warner Bros. Pictures

Image: Philippe Caza, "The Sheep Look Up" (for the 1981 French translation of John Brunner's novel).